First opened Wednesday, June 29, 2005
番組
ばんぐみ
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
broadcast program
Bangumi is 番 (ban, “turn”) plus 組み (kumi), with the k voiced to g by rendaku.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
この番組見る？
Do you want to watch this program?
番組は９時に始まる。
The program starts at nine o'clock.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Compound of 番(ばん) (ban, “turn”) + 組(ぐ)み (-gumi, “set (of items)”). The kumi changes to gumi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
Source: Wiktionary: 番組 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 混種語 Hybrid
- Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Rendaku
- The first sound of the second part voices when two native words join (kami → -gami).